{"id":920,"date":"2013-12-15T17:36:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sepiadesign.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:44:26","slug":"schmidt-sketches-rain-or-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/schmidt-sketches-rain-or-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt Sketches &#8212; Rain or Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hong Kong, 15 December 2013<\/strong> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Founder and Managing Director of <em>Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/em>, <strong>Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP<\/strong>, participated in <strong>AIA Hong Kong&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;Big Draw&#8221; &#8212; an event aimed at coaching underprivileged teens to develop their drawing skills and sense of architectural appreciation.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joined by a dozen other <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiahk.org\/\">AIA Hong Kong<\/a><\/strong> members at Hong Kong&#8217;s Central Waterfront, the group was forced to seek refuge from torrential rains in the nearby Hong Kong Maritime Museum.&nbsp; Nevertheless, the in-situ sketching of Hong Kong&#8217;s skyline continued as AIA Hong Kong members coached enthusiastic teens on sketching techniques, estimation of proportions in buildings and composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:\u00a0 Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP <\/strong>is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\"><strong>Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/strong><\/a>, an award-winning design consultancy specializing in creative and sustainable design solutions for the hospitality industry.\u00a0 Schmidt is also author and illustrator of the award-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kakibubu.com\"><em>Bumbling Traveller Adventure Series<\/em><\/a> which seeks to promote environmental and cultural awareness through entertaining mysteries and adventures, which was recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) through a 2010 Chapter Citation.<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong, 15 December 2013 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Founder and Managing Director of Sepia Design Consultants Limited, Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP, participated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,6],"tags":[33,66,84,56,19],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural-illustration","category-news","tag-aia-hong-kong","tag-architectural-illustration","tag-in-situ-sketching","tag-sepia-design-consultants-limited","tag-thomas-schmidt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgwalJ-eQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}